Kent there will be some key things in your IIS or PWS that you will need to
do. Your .pl needs to be associated like this.
go to control panel. open administrative tools folder. Open computer
management folder. In right window you should see a internet information
services icon with a + Open it. Find and highlight default website, right
click and go to properties.
You should see a tabed folder called home directory open it, go to
configuration tab look at bottom middle of window, open configuration and
you will see all your file .ext (ie look for .pl) make sure it has this for
the file extension for .pl
.pl D:\perl\bin\perl.exe "%s"%s (notice the "%S"%S this is a windows thing).
Place your activestate perl in any folder except www, mine is located on C:
drive and my webserver is on C: but two different folders, when install
installing active state it should give you option of .pl to be associated
with, if not go to instructions at the top.
let me know how it goes.
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 11:38 AM
To: Kent Mercer
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: platform win ME
At 10:12 AM 8/9/01 -0600, Kent Mercer wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Peter Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >How do I begin my first script?
> > >
> > >And how do I save it ?
> > >
> > >Something simple like "Hello World"
> > >
> > >Just started 2 days ago
> > >Need pointed in the right direction
> >
> > What platform are you on? Windows, Mac, Unix, VMS, Palm...?
Ah, okay, Windows ME. A la Mrs. Beeton, first, get your perl. Go to
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePerl/ and download the
Windows MSI version (I'm guessing here that Windows ME has support for the
MS Installer; if not, get the Windows AS package.) Install it and accept
all the defaults.
Then, use Notepad to create a file called hw.pl containing the text between
the lines below:
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
print "Hello World\n";
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[Some people will argue about putting the use strict line in your first
program, but I say, you're going to put it in any program that does
anything useful, so why not get in the habit from the beginning.]
Then open a command prompt window to the same directory, and type
perl hw.pl
and tell us if that doesn't work.
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
http://www.perldebugged.com
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